Recap of Zero Escape: 999 (RECAPitation)
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One of the greatest things you realize is when you are on a bad path June gets a fever that eventually consumes her. This is her literally burning to death in the incinerator. She always gets one hot flash at the beginning, but after that does not have one again on the true path.
Holy shit. How did I not realise this.
tf , thanks
Oh, wow. Now everything makes sense thx xD
This just blew my mind.
oh fuck
A nice touch that hadn't been mentioned, is that when you realise that Young Akane has been in constant contact with Junpei, you notice that all the UI and puzzle solving mechanics have been displayed on the bottom DS screen. In effect, the top screen has always been Junpei's POV and the bottom screen has always been Young Akane's POV.
I freaking LOVED that detail. It went proper meta.
Wtfff
And then for the last puzzle it's inverted, Junpei is in charge and helping Akane free herself
What the actual fuck
damn I missed that because I played it on pc
That's how it done in numerous mystery solving games...
Snake: I have foreseen 6 outcomes of the nonary game.
Santa: In how many of the outcomes do we escape?
Snake: only 1.
LuciusTheTrap why did you give him the stone?
@@ryangonzales8895 - "We're in the Endgame now"
Radical 6
@@kurtmill9080 Sigma: Why did you released Radical-6?
Delta: It was the only way.
Underrated comment.
that twist that they were never on a ship messed me up the first time i got to that ending
Axel Prometh probably one of the best twist in the whole series
Ik
Dude the reveal freaked me out too lol
Wasn't it super obvious from the start? I mean, the ship sank and there was a 100% replica in a building. It's like putting 2 and 2 together
Lewis Carrol lol agreed, it was so obvious
The insane foreshadowing and paradoxes in this game are amazing.
The paradoxes are just amazing I finished the game (all routes) last night and it really opens your mind to some things especially doing all of the routes, I just started the next game and can't wait to see what these creators have ensembled. Plus the music matches every instance perfectly!!
@@Kairibeachga i agree with that
@@Kairibeachga how did you like Virtue’s Last Reward?
Actually, every ending is canon. But there is only one "true" ending.
paths where you won't see the character again for the next game, just mentioned.
but they're all true endings
aneonfoxtribute dude I see you EVERYWHERE. Nice to know Ace Attorney fans are also 999 Fans!
Could somebody told to undartand
1-how akane she deid at the same time she apears at the begin of the game ?
2-is she zero or ghost only in junpi and santa imaganition ??
@@akramhrpah6753 the akane in the past and junpei of present are in different timelines
She broke the space time continuum to save herself in the past to actualise the timeline she is in - woah that's heavy doc
Hey! Love your vids, did you play through the first game? I'd love to watch a let's play of it, and i saw you're streaming VLR but you're probably far off from where i am and i don't wanna spoil myself
There's that word again; heavy. why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the earth's gravitational pull?
999 in NA: 11/16 > 9
VLR in Japan: 2/16 > 9
ZTD in Japan: 6/30/2016 > 18 > 9
or: 6/30 > 9
ZTD on PS4: 8/18/2017 > 27 > 9
The Nonary Games: 3/24 > 9
Uchikoshi and the Zero Escape team are crazy.
Indeed.
Holy shit that is both epic and a little scary.
@@supersonicheroes Epic.
SCREAMS IN DESPAIR
wait what
This is a game where the multiple endings are integral to the gameplay. Relying on the past knowledge from previous playthroughs.
Yes! I love this type of games. Undertale incorporate the timelines/saving and loading your game mechanics into the story, as well.
Imho ALL all good visual novels should do something like this that uses the endings to improve the game, otherwise there isnt really any point to the visual novel in comparison to the same story being a manga or light novel
after all that akane couldn’t have waited outside building Q and thanked junpei for saving her life? like damn what did she drive off for after going through multiple timelines like that
Yeah that's the one thing I didn't like. Where the fuck did she go. And why was Junpei not more freaked out.
The answer might be in the endings of ZTD I'm really close to finishing them
There’s a presumable assumption in VLR
(Spoilers)
Tldr
Akane might’ve left immediately to make Junpei look for her leading to the 2nd game
everything is explained in the next games of the franchise : Virtue's Last Reward and Zero Time Dilemma.
So Akane can tap into hundreds of different timelines and set up her own nonary games at the age of 9 but cant solve a simple soduku puzzle?
Tbh I learned how to play sudoku at 12
LMAO
I still don't know how to play...
IKR AND SHE'S NOT EVEN A RECEIVER THAT'S WHY SHE DIED
Like ya she can transmit but she can't receive so how can Junpei help her lol
I had forgotten how amazing the story of this game is
Varimarthas How could you possibly forget?!
@@ravus9935 Morfogenetic field.
That's the only thing I remembered lol. I've forgotten all of the details, the room escaping sequences, the minigames, etc. I just remembered it had a mind-blowing story with paradoxes and multiple timelines.
Player Pin pfp nice
Probably one of the few games where you actually have a reason/meaning to fail so you can succeed.
The Zero Escape series is one of the best visual novels you can play and I highly recommend that you pick up the game in the Nonary Games, which combines this and Zero's Last Reward (I have a bad memory, so I hope I got that right). It's worth it, and then you can get the last game Zero Time Dilemma.
Prince Kazuya It's Virtue's Last Reward
ZTD was...boring and cringy for me, looked ugly, movements were stiff, VA was bad and the story was just brutality
@@cinnamonpanda6040 after discovering what happened during it's rough development, it is understandable. Though I do wish they took their time to flesh out the animations, va, and story.
I can also recommend AI: The Somnium Files which is a futuristic detective story, also from Uchikoshi's feather, so to speak. Admittedly a little on the expensive side for a VN (I blame the 3D, (almost) full voiceacting and the puzzles being a bit more on the technically demanding side) but it's a ride I can highly recommend.
@@kanoodles1140 i dont particularly think the va couldve gone farther than it already has, with the lipsyncing being hardcoded in from the jp release
Good job doing the ds version since it fits the story better. The realization that the novel mode is Akane's perspective isn't as impactful in the ps4 version.
though it also made a few things better, admittedly. In the original, while Sudokus ARE somewhat hard, the rules are simple enough that you could imagine her maybe getting the hang of it herself since she was around 12 at the time. But in the Remake, the screen is just black. Like, she's literally incapable of solving this on her own, making her desperate cries a bit more believable. Admittedly, that's rather minor compared to the whole "2 screens" meta but still, credit where credit's due.
Dude, as a huge fan of the franchise I know how complicated the story can get. But your recapitation as usual made it simple enough to understand, love your videos man and hope to see way waaaay more of you in the years to come
So the explanation for what happened is essentially Akane died 9 years ago, but the morphogenetic field allowed her to access a time paradox in which she was constantly being saved every timeline by the actions of Junpei in the second nonary games. She was looking through Junpei's eyes to find a good ending to save herself, everytime it fails, she tries again to communicate with an altered future until she suceeds. The Akane we see in the future is from a fulfilled timeline of the true ending and that's why she exists. Young Akane has to fulfill her destiny by using communication with the future to save herself(which she does because she is alive in the 2nd nonary games). And the reason why she survives the burning is because she fulfilled her destiny every constant flow of timeline. That's also why she had to become Zero, otherwise the 2nd nonary games wouldn't have happened and the timelines would become her death by fire and everyone in the future living normally. The only thing that doesn't make sense are Seven and Snake's memories of the wrong timeline of her being burned.
Yes if in that timeline akane lived why they keep telling akane was the only who died. I guess somehow they got into a paradox timeline.
hi this is 10 mos late. I cannot remember if it was in the ds ending version but in the remastered, by the end of the game while everyone is in the car at the nevada desert, Junpei implied that Seven might have been lying about his memories and that Akane did survive while Snake only assumed that Akane died cause he is blind. Junpei never really got to ask that as the the game ends there. The most acceptable reasoning would be that, while in the incinerator, Seven got a headache which might have been caused by the altering of memories as the history of Akane dying collapses and changed into a timeline where she survives. I'm guessing the author left it hanging for us to figure it out on our own cause it kinda relates to the Schrodinger's Cat Theory.
Bruh she couldn't be saved bc she's not a receiver
@@sephiresifrid I think she never did die in the first Nonary game. In addition to Seven lying, Snake was told by Zero not to discuss what happened during the 1st Nonary game, so him lying about Akane dying is perfectly in line with not speaking about what happened, that being the time thing of her being saved via Junpei.
A possibility to add on to that is that; she died in other timelines but memories from those timelines shouldn't be in Snake and Seven's memories, unless Akane and or Junpei is/are so gifted that by making Junpei believe young Akane to be dead created such a strong change in the morphogenetic field so much so that it caused Seven and Snake to remember her as dead, overwriting their own memories, from the morphogenic field influence.
Kind of like the handstand example where if someone has strong telepathic powers, you will want to do a handstand as well, so by making Junpei believe she is dead, the collective consciousness was rewritten. Just like with Ice-9, just like with the crystals in the cleaning agents, once the change occurred it cannot change back, and the phenomena happens globally or in this case globally is in the 9 participants. Once jumpy believed her dead, they all did, it retroactively affecting memories. It's not quite so far-fetched if Akane/Junpei are strong enough to link together 9 years through time. The morphogenetic field became so strong that they no longer remembered their own memories but the memories collectively shared, fed to them by/from the field.
So they affected not just the subconscious of mankind but their memory, telepathic brainwash. Possibly.
@@jpjp2957 the creator of the game mentioned that when the kids were separated into receiver and transmitter groups its not that they can only receive or transmit but that receivers have a higher ability to receive but can still transmit and vice versa
An interesting fact about the original zero. They never actually killed anyone. All of the deaths were caused by ace. The bracelets for everyone else were fake.
The game was completely fake and the only purpose was to recreate what happened 9 years ago so junpei could save akane.
It needed to happen otherwise akane and zero wouldn't exist.
What a great plot twist
I just Finished the First Part but how was the Game Fake if #9 died?
@@otothegoglu because only the people who made the Nonary Game had bombs in their bracelets (ace, number 9 guy, the captain with a 0, Guy-X (the one who died in the place of snake)). Everybody else didn't have bombs.
Edit: I know about "Akane", thank you.
Big thanks to Nicholas Soto for the donation and this request, I hope you enjoy. I know that this was recently released for the PS4, but I chose, like previous titles, to go with the original format on DS.
Oni Black Mage The original is a lot better than the Nonary Games version. Thank you for doing a video on this one!
Oni Black Mage Wow, you did a great job! Thank you for sharing this series on your channel. I hope more people will check it out now!
I looked at your Patreon and dude, you really deserve more than that for the effort you put into these videos. You're going on my list for when I'm no longer counting pennies week to week..
By the way, I actually do suffer from a form of prosopagnosia, and they got a few details horribly-wrong in their portrayal in the game. One of the most glaringly-obvious of these is the fact that people with face blindness distinguish others by other features, like clothes and hair. Even if he bought Junpei's lie about swapping clothes with Santa, a real person with face blindness would say, "But you two have completely different hair; there's no way you could have swapped places." Maybe the fact that this takes place in Japan covers up such a mistake, and that it's common knowledge for 20+year-old dudes to have white hair, and be confused with someone with brown hair...
The Catholic Nintendo Nerd What other details have they gotten wrong? I don’t know much about prosopagnosia
I kind of figured the reality was something like that. Even if you don't have the normal way of recognizing people, the human brain is so adaptable, it makes sense you would find ways around the problem. But as with any mystery-based story, they make certain assumptions in order to get things to work the way they want.
I have it as well! I struggle day to day recognizing people like casual friends, coworkers, and extended family. I even sometimes get confused with people I know well, including thinking I see my parents when it's someone else or having difficulty recognizing my fiancé from a distance. I could see not being able to tell the difference between two people that I barely know and have only met once or twice looking as they currently do. It's actually incredibly interesting, I only got a diagnosis this year (I'm 19) but before that I mostly coped by recognizing clothes/jewelry/tattoos, voices, and hairstyles so I wasn't aware that it wasn't normal to walk around feeling like strangers know me but I don't know any of them. I'm also bad with names because I can't attach names to faces.
Well I know of a certain cure for prosopagnosia that a certain patient came up with... It's not that hard, y'know? Just kidnap nine people.
*eighteen people
This is just my opinion, but I assume that at the very start, the first timeline split off into which Young Akane either solved the puzzle or she didn't. The Young Akane that solved the puzzle got to live, but she wanted to save her other self from dying as well, so she thought of a way to use the only other person she could transmit to, Junpei, and then transmitted the information to the Akane that didn't solve the puzzle. Then she explained her plan to Aoi and he, of course, assisted her. Zero Akane and Aoi jumped to the other timeline, explained the situation to Seven who agreed to help after Zero Akane most likely revealed her identity to him(Seven and Snake's memories and Seven's memory loss were true, but only Seven was told by Zero Akane about how her past self could be saved, which he only remembered over time, and I assume Zero Akane told him about impairing his memory only temporarily, as it would ruin her plan, and Seven most likely trusted her on it after realizing that she was really alive somehow), made the preparations for the second Nonary game and kidnapped everyone, and that was when the events of 999 started, and all the bad ending timelines are just timelines within the timeline when Young Akane failed to solve the puzzle, and Zero Akane just used the information from those failed timelines to make sure Young Akane would succeed in another timeline. After Zero Akane finally succeeded at making sure the other Young Akane survived, she and Aoi went back to their own timeline, only to find out that she had created a time paradox, where another alternate Zero Akane used another alternate Junpei to save another alternate Young Akane who died in the incineration room throughout different timelines, over and over again, forever. I still don't know how "Alice" is there at the end, but I'm just assuming that everything the characters said regarding her being frozen but still living is true.
Good explaining. You seem to have some knowledge about this topic.
I wonder if Akane could be considered extremely self-serving and egoistic when she kindnapped all those people for her own gains. Potentially sacrifying innocent people to make them rescue her in the past. Many timelines went off with multiple deaths. It isn't the most altruistic stance Akane took. In this context, could she even be considered...evil?
Also, why is Santa holding a gun to Akane's head in the end? Weren't they considered partners? Why did Akane (and partners) kidnap the evil guys as well? Did she really plan to make multiple timelines happen, in which one eventually went according to her plan (like the evil dude explained, he was manipulated to kill the other bad guys). So there are multiple timelines in which she made Junpei die...right?
@@DezorianGuy I still haven't gotten to the other games so hopefully they clear that up, ive also been thinking the same, how much control did she actually have? And what purpose did certain deaths serve?
Bruh, I just recently finished streaming the game and I accidentally predicted them not being on a ship. Me and chat were jokingly proposing locations about where we actually were. From being on the sun in space to being in Jumpei’s frickin’ basement to being in the Sahara desert (not the Nevada desert but still a desert). It truly was one of the funniest moments in my Playthrough.
I'm still confused as to how Akane was there with them if she was technically already dead in the past...
The "true" timeline is what happened in reality. After she was kidnapped, Akane connected to Junpei in the timeline wherein she survives the incinerator, in order to get him to send her the solution in the past, so as to avoid temporal paradox. The "true" ending corresponds to the true timeline, the one in which The Second Nonary Game takes place. The Second Nonary Game was set up for several reasons, one being to punish the surviving members of Cradle Pharmaceuticals (including the CEO, ofc), and to actualize the timeline in which Akane solves the final puzzle.
@@gotinogaden Holy hell that's trippy
I know it's confusing but in VLR (the second game) they introduce Shrodinger's cat and how both 999's and VLR's nonary games are both based arounf Shrodinger's cat. But the reason why June was even with them in the game wasn't because she was a ghost, the reason was because she is both dead and alive, the incinerator where she's trapped in became a Shrodinger's cat situation. I found this in a youtube comment section after having played VLR and it just blew me away
@@neil4542 That's a great point, and Schrodinger's Cat is the only sensible way to provide an explanation for June's presence. It is easy to justify her presence in the "true" timeline (because that's the only timeline in which she is practically alive, and able to complete the Second Nonary Game successfully, otherwise there are a great many endings in which she and/or everyone else dies at Ace's hand). Nowhere is this more evident than in the Submarine ending, in which she literally disappears (along with the blood stains from her wounds) because she had never existed at that point. And if the "true" timeline is the only alternative future in which she lives, then the other timelines have to "collapse" in some way, since she couldn't have organized the Second Nonary Game in them unless Junpei succeeded (which he fails to do in every other timeline).
@@gotinogaden Although I still havent quite figured out the submarine ending yet to be honest... Because I am watching a playthrough and the let's players (Theyre called the nyancaved btw theyre hilarious) they got that ending in the playthrough and I noticed some stuff that didn't make sense to me.
1. Ace was "dead", of course we don't know if he was faking it or not since Seven didn't check his vitals only Clover's.
2. And although majority of the evidence points to Ace being the murderer in the submarine ending (the knife, lotus' bracelet missing etc.), Akane is extremely suspicious as well, first of all her body or "non-existing" body at that point was in the submarine room, somewhere that was locked and had no possible way to enter, and the most damning of all, when she "dies" we get a close up of her hand with her bracelet still on and Junpei does not mention if the bracelet had come off in any way. I doubt she would actually kill anyone since duh she's akane
3. The only other suspect would be Santa, he in the same way as Ace, could have faked being dead and since he knew they would not be reaching the true timeline he decided to kill everyone off, but in my opinion it just doesn't seem likely
When I played this game it branched somewhat like the second timeline, but after finding the gun I got stabbed to death...
That is either the Knife or the Submarine ending. He's only talking about the true ending, and the route required, in this one
yeah, i assumed it was one of many bad endings possible.
There aren't even that many. I'd still recommend getting every one of them.
I recommend at least getting the axe ending as it's one of the creepier ones, and also meme-worthy.
Great recap. I'm playing the zero escape games right now. Just finished the remake of 999 and loved it. The true ending is a real mind fuck but amazing the remakes final puzzle has a different solution and is much easier once you figure it out
Thank you, thank you so much for this video! I honestly was still so confused about the ending after beating the game but this makes everything much more clearer. Thank you for the evident hard work going into this video :)
You told the story so well! been binge-watching your videos on I really appreciate everything you do. This is a ton of work!!!
Thanks man, I played this game like 2 years ago and was afraid of heading into VLR having forgotten a bunch of things. This video is perfect, thank you very much.
God damn this game sounds amazing as f@#K. I have a soft spot for thriller, mystery, puzzle solving, and syfy stories, and look and behold something that incorporates all four at once. defiantly gonna try and pick this up.
you should, its VERY amazing and has a very deep plot
you'll probably end up playing it again just cause of how much their is to take in, especially its sequel
It helps that it's one of the greatest games ever made.
BlackSteel KeyChain Play the entire Zero Escape series! Easily some of the best video games of all time. You won't regret it.
P.S. Play them in order of release
(999-VLR-ZTD)
The Nonary Gamer wait it's a series I only know this game and I love it so you just blew my mind. I'm a kh and metal gear fan so im no stranger to confusing video game timelines, so you mind telling the proper order of games for a complete rookie.
+BlackSteel KeyChain Gotta play them in release order. Wouldn't work otherwise. 999>VLR>ZTD.
This channel is seriously my favorite. Oni, you do an amazing job and I hope you never stop doing this. THANK YOU!!
Thanks, that really picks up my day!
I think my favorite thing about this video and the game is how different my original playthrough was compared to the "intended" or canon route you've shown in this video. Every player will have a slightly different order of events/puzzles, this gives everyone their own personal first playthrough. I really wish the rest of them games in the series would have as much personality as 999.
I just found out about this series of games and what can I say... I absolutely love it.
This channel is so underrated. Thank you for the uploads !
After all these years, it was a nice refresher to see such a great recap.
Thanks!
The game was a blast on the DS. Brings back memories!
Underrated game wow.
Great job once again man!
Now please do Virtue's Last Reward!
Jacob Gooding The only bad thing about these videos is it spoils the game for those who haven't played it. For some reason these people can't contain themselves. It would also be hard as hell to cover Virtue's Last Reward because of the sheer amount of endings, timelines, and events that VLR has. The video would be like an hour long.
He's done longer.
th-cam.com/video/FW5cEa0b9F4/w-d-xo.html 49 minutes
somehow it does not spoil any of the emotional parts, because you have to play it to feel it. like the music of Virtue's Last Reward OST 2-15 Blue Bird Lamentation ( th-cam.com/video/gFJ1r6_4mW4/w-d-xo.html )
@@ravus9935 The real trick for VLR isn't so much covering all 9+ good endings but figuring out a suitable linear path through them, particularly with one pair of endings each requiring information from the other's route.
Excellent work! Keep it up man. I really enjoy these videos!
Brilliant and clear summary, for a very intricate plot.
Really helped me to understand the fuller story.
Thank you.
Thanks so much for this video! This game series isn't talked about enough!
Oooooooooh boy this has been a long time coming~ I love your recapitations ^^
Beautify done, explains the plot very well
Man the fucking rollercoaster this single game starts off
Comment: Timelines that lead to bad endings have June getting a fever that eventually kills her. It's the incinerator burning her in the past.
comment: Young Akane is in constant contact with Junpei, all the puzzles happen on the bottom screen. Junpei's POV is the top screen, and Young Akane's POV is the bottom screen.
me: The final puzzle, where you have to literally hold the DS upside down. The whole time, Akane's been sending you the answers to the ship's puzzles. Of course, you're holding the DS upright. But this time, you're sending her the sudoku puzzle's answer. This time, you're holding it upside down.
Is there a list of ways this game goes full meta on the player?
I think the closest thing to such a list is an interview with Kotaro Uchikoshi. I've read it a few years ago (almost 9 lol) when I first played the game though I don't know whether it's still up somewhere or not.
Oh, I've got one thing to add to your list: Every one of the 9 players represent one personality type of the enneagram. (ennea = nine, gram = diagram) It's a personality type indicator and the types are numbered from 1 to 9
Oh man, I was actually hoping for you to do this one. Will you be doing the other 2 games as well?
great freaking video man
Awesome video as usual! Have you considered doing a Golden Sun 1 and 2 video?
I just started ZTD today and watching this (and VLR) as a refresher since I played this years ago. Great video.
I really miss this visual novel style anime-look.
999 and especially VLR happen to be some of my favorite visual novels of all time. I am about to read ZTD so I wished to watch a recap in the unlikely event I might've forgotten something which your vid did an excellent job at lol
Just seeing all the events and mysteries in this short format made me look back very fondly over my own playthrough and also confirm how vividly I remember it all haha. Thanks for the vid
thank you. please continue onward.
Thank you 999, for being the only video game to make me cry my eyes out like a little bitch... Gosh, I love it so much. Have you ever considered doing a video on the Submarine ending? I never could figure out exactly what happened down that path.
playinetgames If you're talking about who the killer was, the answer is Ace. The creator him(her?)self even confirmed it.
I got the submarine ending first and man my heart was pounding. Yeah Ace must have covered himself in fake blood, lay on the ground (next to Clover and Seven iirc) and then crept up on you with the knife!
We can deduce who the killer is here by process of elimination. It can't be seven or lotus because they were with you the whole time. It can't be akane because she was with you when seven and lotus are killed. So it has to be one of the three people you find dead in the hallway and one of them was pretending to be dead. We know its not Clover because you check her and it says she doesn't have a pulse. That leaves Santa and Ace. After what we know from the true ending, Ace has a motive to kill you while Santa has a motive to keep everyone alive. So it was probably Ace.
Thanks for the videos played 999 and virtues last reward over 10 years ago after playing ai the sominium files i really wanted to play zero time dilemma your recaps brought me back in the story without needing to play both games again
i knew it. i knew you would hit the series eventually.
I honestly didn't think it was possible to summarize this game in under an hour
Love this game! Uchikoshi also wrote for Ever17, another VN any Sci-Fi fan should not miss.
What a great video. I am going to play zero time dilemma and I wanted to know the story about the past games without playing them. Thank you.
Just finished this game today! So I felt like watching this video
I got this game two years ago for christmas, but I never got around to it until now because I was busy with ace attorney (I've played all 10 games now, + the crossover, haha) and I really enjoyed compared to other mystery visual novel games I've played! I really like it because it's completely dark the whole way through, almost no comic relief, unlike ace attorney, professor layton, and danganronpa. I love the characters and how the mysteries all tie together at the end. I can't really put it into words how I feel about this game, but I love it a lot, and I can't wait to play Virtue's Last Reward some time soon!
Great video. Please do the other two games too
sometimes this game is so deep and I love it
"Junpei finds it awfully suspicious"
Why do you say this so often?
aneonfoxtribute Because it's what happens and means that forshadowing happened.
I know, but still. It just sounds weird to say that so many times instead of something similar like "Junpei thought it strange" or something.
shhhhhhhh
"Lets talk about how to remove the bracelet"
When I play the game I am clueless
I didn't understand how June was both "alive" and "dead" in the same timeline until this video (I still find it hard to understand, but the video made it more clear) :)
One thing that should have been added is that near the end, Junpei wonders if Seven said the truth about "seeing Akane's corpse 9 years ago"
Basically June was able to foresee the different possible timelines in her future. Because in ONE of those timelines she DOES solve the puzzle and live. This allows the other timelines to exist. Otherwise June would have died right there in the incinerator. She then sought to make the 2nd Nonary game with Santa to make this ONE timeline work.
Criminally underrated series :(
After playing this game again I realized that Seven, Lotus, and Snake are likely in league with Zero (Akane and Aoi). They all have certain orders to follow and doors they have to go through.
Seven's amnesia, is so perfectly timed to keep Junpei in the dark and reveal to him when he's close enough to the finish line. And a "bodyguard" to protect them from Ace.
Lotus's computer skills to organize the technology and upgrades in the new Nonary Game. And her unlocking the puzzle at the lab while reminding Junpei about prosopagnosia and the morphogenic field. She also fixed the REDs at the hospital room. She may also be the one to close the freezer so June and Santa can explain Ice 9 to Junpei.
Snake definitely did not get gassed and stripped by Zero in a small room. He GAVE his clothes to Zero and have others open the doors all the way to the coffin (they don't have bombs in them so they can pass the doors with one person).
Clover may be in the league with Zero too, to explain how to use the morphogenic field to Junpei so he can use it later. And to insure Junpei to go to the "right" path, she'd kill him to reset Junpei's consciousness (we never saw her actually kill the others on screen). Then again, the method is a little extreme, so Clover may or may not just be a loose cannon kept in the dark like Junpei.
Since Seven saved Snake, Akane, Aoi, and Lotus's daughter 9 years ago, it'd make sense for all of them to help Akane with the new Nonary Game and to get revenge on Ace and his co-workers. And to make sure young Akane survives to become Zero.
My brilliant brain put me in a bad ending. Now here I am watching this vid! Love yah man.
Ohh so that's where Alice came ( I'm playing Virtue's Last Reward but not played 999 ) Btw, great summary!
Kokichi is best boy
Holy moly... I thought I had this game pretty much figured out until I saw the true ending.
This is some of the most confusing shit I’ve ever listened too. Thank you for making it though.
I will love to see a episode on xenoblade chronicles
^^ This. THIS PLEASE!
YA!
I literally have to watch this every month to understand what is going on
I got a headache playing this game, that's what happened.
Yeah this is so convoluted.
It's 2021 and i just played the 1st ds game and got all endings and holy shit. What a damn ride.
The games are phenomenal
Nice. Thanks! I was interested in this game but I can't play it.
Wow that's amazing. The vibes are amazing. I can't explain the feeling but they really did it.
This 'genre' was introduced to me by Danganronpa and then YTTD, now this. Nice. I definitely see how this might've influenced them.
Wow I chose the exact path you first covered lol
Snake weares Free the Soul robes
I think "Awfully suspicous" is this guys catchphrase due to how many times he says it
Huh. I could've sworn that Seven said they were actually on the Britannic, not the Gigantic. The Titanic did have two sister ships, but they are named the Britannic and the Olympic. The Britannic WAS converted into a hospital ship and DID sink during WWI.
It's cool until you realize it doesn't make sense. If Akane was a transmitter how would she be able to "receive" information from Junpei? The whole reason why she died is because she's not a receiver.
Because "transmitter and receiver" is only the model Cradle has for how espers work. It turns out that two-way communication is also possible...
For a ds game there was a lot going on this, this game had a really deep lore
You should do the other two games :)
OH MY GOD!??!?!!?! MY FAVE GAME IN DS!?!?!?! THANKS ONI!!!!!!
I think it's the best Zero Escape game. The other games have a lot of plot holes. Moreover I don’t feel the need for a sequel after this wonderful game.
Are there any other videos/channels like the series done here? Preferably mystery games. Thanks.
I knew Akane was Zero from the very start lol
Just not like this
i thought Zero was a guy lmao
🌹♣️After seeing Danganronpa , I never trusted cute girls'....... ♣️🌹
How?!
I kinda guessed when I thought ok who would be the one person that would affect Junpei the most. Then I thought ok all these people are practically strangers except Akane
I mean the 0 braclet actually being 6 was a dead giveaway
Hope you get to doing VLR and ZTD as well
@oni black mage, would you be able to play and make a recapitation of the ace attorney games? I think those games have unparalleled stories especially trials and tribulations!
My favorite is Dual Destinies, personally, and yes, Ace Attorney is one of the visual novel games I want to cover after I wrap up the 3 series I already started.
Damn, I just finished playing it on PC and I think it was way more confusing with switching Akane's and Junpei's point of view
Nice
I love this game
Oooo i remember playing this i kept hearing people talking about this all of the sudden so i was like "wtf is this" then i realized i played this before
Oh god this game is meta as hell
Sonic’s past/future mechanic be like
Thanks for the video dude. But fuck me I'm more confuesed than I was playing through 3 endings .
Oh dear I've gone cross-eyed...
18:09 a certain danganropa character is triggered
I mean Danganronpa and Zero escape are both made by Spike Chunsoft
That character also has a white hair
Can you do Virtue's Last Reward?
My only issue is name of one of the ship. Titanic younger sister ship was Britannic. Maybe not canon name for the game. But the ship did go down in similar way
Some complicated social experiment there...
What makes the PC version so frustrating is that they completely botched the dual screen twist, which was one of the most impactful narrative moments in all of video games.
But the PC version improved the graphics, and made so many huge gameplay quality of life improvements like way faster text, picking up at any branch path, and removing the "mandatory guide" aspect of getting the different endings.
But in the end, I'd have to recommend that first time players skip the PC version and do the DS version, text frustrations and all.
I swear Spike Chunsoft is on acid
I lost my save file half way through the game. I'm probably not going to redo the game